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2418044Womens Bookscapes in Early Modern Britainhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/womens-bookscapes-in-early-modern-britain-9780472124435/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3223023/a09e8c49-ceea-4f61-bd7e-db969c966188.jpg?v=63838505428683000010331435MXNUniversity of Michigan PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of womens reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field.</p><p>In thirteen probing essays, <em>Womens Bookscapesin Early Modern Britain</em> brings together the work of internationally renowned scholars investigating key questions about early modern British womens figurative, material, and cultural relationships with books. What constitutes evidence of womens readerly engagement? How did women use books to achieve personal, political, religious, literary, economic, social, familial, or communal goals? How does new evidence of womens libraries and book usage challenge received ideas about gender in relation to knowledge, education, confessional affiliations, family ties, and sociability? How do digital tools offer new possibilities for the recovery of information on early modern women readers?</p><p>The volumes three-part structure highlights case studies of individual readers and their libraries; analyses of readers and readership in the context of their interpretive communities; and new types of scholarly evidencelists of confiscated books and convent rules, for exampleas well as new methodologies and technologies for ongoing research. These essays dismantle binaries of private and public; reading and writing; female and male literary engagement and production; and ownership and authorship.</p><p>Interdisciplinary, timely, cohesive, and concise, this collections fresh, revisionary approaches represent substantial contributions to scholarship in early modern material culture; book history and print culture; womens literary and cultural history; library studies; and reading and collecting practices more generally.</p>...2354091Womens Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain10331435https://www.gandhi.com.mx/womens-bookscapes-in-early-modern-britain-9780472124435/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3223023/a09e8c49-ceea-4f61-bd7e-db969c966188.jpg?v=638385054286830000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20189780472124435_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9780472124435_<p>Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of womens reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field.</p><p>In thirteen probing essays, <em>Womens Bookscapesin Early Modern Britain</em> brings together the work of internationally renowned scholars investigating key questions about early modern British womens figurative, material, and cultural relationships with books. What constitutes evidence of womens readerly engagement? How did women use books to achieve personal, political, religious, literary, economic, social, familial, or communal goals? How does new evidence of womens libraries and book usage challenge received ideas about gender in relation to knowledge, education, confessional affiliations, family ties, and sociability? How do digital tools offer new possibilities for the recovery of information on early modern women readers?</p><p>The volumes three-part structure highlights case studies of individual readers and their libraries; analyses of readers and readership in the context of their interpretive communities; and new types of scholarly evidencelists of confiscated books and convent rules, for exampleas well as new methodologies and technologies for ongoing research. These essays dismantle binaries of private and public; reading and writing; female and male literary engagement and production; and ownership and authorship.</p><p>Interdisciplinary, timely, cohesive, and concise, this collections fresh, revisionary approaches represent substantial contributions to scholarship in early modern material culture; book history and print culture; womens literary and cultural history; library studies; and reading and collecting practices more generally.</p>...9780472124435_University of Michigan Presslibro_electonico_d80e3f68-dd56-3d97-8b5c-4dec53450f72_9780472124435;9780472124435_9780472124435Elizabeth SauerInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-a4165fa0-be5e-4b26-9ee6-6ba7cd9a7bf8.epub2018-11-08T00:00:00+00:00University of Michigan Press